Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network'
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/03/2011 10:14 EST, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:24 AM, andrew.wallace wrote:
Mobile phone firm Vodafone accuses the Egyptian authorities of using its network to send pro-government text messages.
Here is their PR
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html
Note that this is entirely legal, under "the emergency powers provisions of the Telecoms Act"
Which is legal, Vodafone's protest or the government's telling them to send messages? afaik the agreement was that the operator would have preloaded canned messages, agreed on in advance with the government, and now the government is telling them to send out arbitrary messages they compose on the spot.
I wonder if these messages were blockable by the end-user or if they were being sent as a service announcement from Vodafone. Certainly, if the government were sending the messages under the company name then something sounds wrong about that. What I would like is to hear from someone who received the messages and what their experiences were. Andrew
On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:20 PM, andrew.wallace wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/03/2011 10:14 EST, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:24 AM, andrew.wallace wrote:
Mobile phone firm Vodafone accuses the Egyptian authorities of using its network to send pro-government text messages.
Here is their PR
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html
Note that this is entirely legal, under "the emergency powers provisions of the Telecoms Act"
Which is legal, Vodafone's protest or the government's telling them to send messages? afaik the agreement was that the operator would have preloaded canned messages, agreed on in advance with the government, and now the government is telling them to send out arbitrary messages they compose on the spot.
I wonder if these messages were blockable by the end-user or if they were being sent as a service announcement from Vodafone.
Certainly, if the government were sending the messages under the company name then something sounds wrong about that.
What I would like is to hear from someone who received the messages and what their experiences were.
They were described to me as being "from Vodafone." I assumed that this meant that they were service messages. Marshall
Andrew
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